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Common exoplanet 17 EP

HD 105779 b

RA 182.6612° · Dec -16.9565° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
17 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Frozen world +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 17

7 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Frozen world · +8

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Frozen world. A deep-frozen world far from its star's warmth.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 3.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 281.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 1802 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 180 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1846.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 360 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts about 6.6 Earth years.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 14.1× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 2803 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. Roughly 203× Earth's mass — about 0.6 Jupiters.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.0× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
  • Temperature. A frigid -126°C — colder than dry ice.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by La Silla Observatory using the radial velocity method.

Properties

density gcc
0.399
discovery facility
La Silla Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
dist ly
180.1722
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
147.29
insolation
0.0683
mass earth
203.4102
name
HD 105779 b
orbital period days
2412
radius earth
14.1
sys num planets
1

About HD 105779 b

HD 105779 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 180.2 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 147 K, spans roughly 14.1 Earth radii and weighs about 203.41 Earth masses.

A deep-frozen world far from its star's warmth.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, HD 105779 b is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why HD 105779 b is a common exoplanet

HD 105779 b scores 17 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant and Frozen world — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.